Prognostic value of muscle depletion assessed by computed tomography for surgical outcomes of cancer patients undergoing total esophagectomy and gastrectomy.
Taysa M MenezesMarina O DiasRicardo Dos ReisJorge EliasFabiano R LucchesiRaphael Leonardo Cunha de AraujoPublished in: Journal of surgical oncology (2020)
Despite the high prevalence of muscle loss, it was not possible to correlate it with surgical outcomes for gastrectomies, but for esophagectomies, there may be relevance due to borderline association, although patients received nutritional therapy.
Keyphrases
- computed tomography
- patients undergoing
- end stage renal disease
- skeletal muscle
- newly diagnosed
- ejection fraction
- chronic kidney disease
- magnetic resonance imaging
- papillary thyroid
- positron emission tomography
- squamous cell carcinoma
- squamous cell
- bone marrow
- contrast enhanced
- patient reported
- lymph node metastasis
- childhood cancer